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Cole Palmer 'increasingly disillusioned' with life at Chelsea and 'primed to leave this summer' Unfortunately a good source for Manchester football news https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/cole-palmer-increasingly-disillusioned Once again, a good source is reporting what I have been reporting on here for a long time now, only backing up the bad news. Now, I want to say before we get into this article, that Chelsea have ZERO intentions of letting Cole Palmer leave anytime soon and hold ALL the cards here. But also, as I’ve been saying in other articles, will they really want to keep any player if said player comes to them and asks to leave the club? Palmer has NOT done this as of right now, but he’s certainly been unhappy at Chelsea for quite some time now - more on that from my at the bottom of this article. Let’s get into what has been reported first. Samuel Luckhurst is unfortunately a very good source of football news when it comes to anything Manchester related. So even though he writes for The Sun, you cannot simply just ignore what he has reported on Palmer over the weekend. People tried to do that with the Enzo Fernandez stuff, and look where that’s gone/going…. Luckhurst writes: “Palmer is increasingly disillusioned with life at Chelsea and primed to leave this summer. “Manchester United, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich are all interested in the £150million-rated England star. “Palmer is understood to be frustrated by a change in Chelsea’s tactics which he feels have denied him space on the pitch. “And he misses playing with striker Nicolas Jackson, who is on a season-long loan at Bayern Munich. “Failing to secure a spot in Europe’s top club competition would surely further damage the club’s hopes of holding on to boyhood United fan Palmer. “Chelsea consider Palmer to be an ‘untouchable’ and he is under contract at Stamford Bridge until 2033. “Palmer is unsettled in London and hankering for a return to his hometown of Manchester. “He would be open to joining the Reds, although United’s priority positions this summer are midfield and the left-hand side. “United director of football Jason Wilcox was the academy head at City when Palmer was breaking through. “Wilcox and chief executive Omar Berrada, previously the chief operating officer at City, will oversee recruitment at United again this summer.” Now, I’ve heard nothing at all on the missing Jackson stuff. I find that bit a little odd. And I know Palmer was frustrated with his lack of freedom under Enzo Maresca, but I’ve not heard anything under Liam Rosenior. Not saying those bits are untrue, just not something I can confirm. What I have heard and have reported for some time now is that Palmer misses Manchester and would be much happier if he was living back there. I was always told to watch out for a move to United, and not back to City. I’d be shocked if Palmer went anywhere else IF he was to leave Chelsea. But the problems here is whether United will even go for him, can they even afford him, and what chances have they got getting him out of Chelsea? Personally, I don’t think Palmer will leave this summer. I do think Fernandez will go, but Palmer leaving, despite his desires to, is just too unrealistic I think. At least for now. Palmer is certainly not acting up, causing any issues, and he’s putting in 100% effort still and certainly not downing any tools. But he misses his family, he doesn’t do much in London other than train and then just go to his living accommodation. He’s been homesick for many reasons. Then add to that the on field and off field frustrations he’s been going through, his own frustrations with his form and injury issues, and the Chelsea project being so turmoil, he’s just not happy at the club right now. I’d be VERY surprised if he ended up going abroad by the way, unless he uprooted his whole family! Hard to call how this will go, but I just think it’s impossible for him to leave this summer at least, for many reasons.

As I reported earlier in my sourced article, Adam Wharton has become Chelsea’s No.1 target in midfield for…View the full article

Did I say that they were ungrateful? I've mentioned in a number of posts that it was inevitable that these guys would eventually leave for La Liga. Hopefully we can convince Estevao to stick around for 2+ seasons as I'd love to see him evolve like Hazard did. We'll be lucky to finish as the 6th best PL club this season and with the fixtures coming up, there's every chance we slide to 7th/8th. You can't expect Enzo, Cucu to be here for 6-7 years and not challenge for silverware, they also have ambitions. We haven't been a serious club since the UK forced Roman to sell.

Whats that got to do with anything 🤣 Mata was twice POTY two seasons prior to being sold then he asked to leave due to a lack of minutes in an international tournament season, not like the club were desperate to offload him. Oscar again was out the team with Conte, China offer came in and the money was crazy. And what because football players live in London they should be grateful? Are they not allowed to have ambition & want to win trophies? 😂

Exactly!!! Plus they'll be replaced with players who are either young or just cheap!! And are cheap for a reason.

When Mata and Oscar were sold, it didn't make a big difference to our squad. Selling Enzo and Cucurella now means we will go from 6th best in the league to 10th, 11th

THE Chelsea SITUATION IS GETTING SO MUCH WORSE…

💥🔵Real Madrid consider Enzo Fernandez’s signing IMPOSSIBLE this summer. He would cost over €100M, and Real Madrid will absolutely NOT pay that. (@JorgeCPicon) I see them offering players!! Real is playing its usual game again. That's how they always drive down the transfer fee!! 🚫🔵Chelsea have ZERO intention of selling Cole Palmer, amid genuine interest from Manchester United ❌ (@FrazFletcher) 💨⏳️10 years after his arrival at the club, Pep Guardiola could leave Manchester City in the summer, according to a report from @lequipe. Former Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca is the chosen successor. 🗯🔵Arsenal and Chelsea are preparing to rival Liverpool for the signing of Arda Guler this summer, if Real Madrid open the door to his departure, which is a concrete possibility. Arsenal and Chelsea have made their interest clear to all parties. The Premier League duo are eager to be kept informed of any developments and are ready to act if Madrid signal a willingness to negotiate. (@Graeme Bailey)

yes there is a lot of noise in the last months because of him

People are naive if they think he is gone because of this interview, they planned to sell him a long time ago, big salary, didn't extend last year when he got a wage bump.

he's gone and I cant blame him at least I hope we get 60M for him

💥🔵Chelsea left-back Marc Cucurella is FC Barcelona and Atletico Madrid’s top target for the left-back position. (@AS)

He’s not going to say shit. He’s a company man through and through. He’s never going to say anything remotely controversial and especially not related to the people who handed him his job.

I'd rather get Camavinga and cash for Enzo instead of Wharton.

Cucu landing the facts! Fuck BlueCo, BlueCo OUT!

🗯🔵It looks like the midfield targets for the summer have been finalized. Valentin Barco and Adam Wharton.

funny situation all around. owners didnt want to help maresca, he leaves, in comes an absolute clown for a manager, players dont respect him and dont give a shit, making the owners lose a lot of money and the players are now threataning to leave. i wonder if the board realizes that they made a huge mistake sacking maresca...probably not.

I said the same thing like Enzo and Cucu, Maresca was doing a good job, he just need it to be back up but these guys don't care. Hence the whole situation and sadly the good players that we have are figuring that out. It's abandon ship from here on.

Rosenior’s next presser should be interesting. I’m guessing not too many questions about Port Vale

I’m coming back to this debate again from a couple of weeks ago. There is a lot being…View the full article

They will just sell them if they don't like what they say. I agree with Cucu but he isn't going to be rewarded for it, he will be hung out to dry/sold no doubt and all the questions put on the manager for him to blag his way out of it. These players need to take accountability but more so do the owners, it's a joint effort and both the players and owners need to sort this fucking shit out NOW

The squad clearly really, really liked Maresca. They didn’t want him to go. They clearly viewed him as someone who could eventually take them to the top if these clowns up top gave him the right tools instead of more kids. This interview from Cucu is what we need more of from our big players, though. BlueCo may choose to simply ignore the supporters, put their heads in the sand, and push forward with their same awful transfer policy. But they won’t be able to ignore their big star players that THEY SIGNED calling them out and potentially pushing to leave their “project” because of their incompetence.

People talk about this so called project, they are also getting paid pretty well and get to live and train in London. Enzo and Cucu have had roughly 4 seasons at the club, they've basically played 100 games in the last 2 seasons considering the CWC, if they want to go and try a new challenge, so be it. Mata and Oscar played like 3-ish seasons each back in the day and they were sold without any hesitation.

Need to buy experience to guide these young lads, but with experience comes cost and this lot don't like buying any players over a certain age never mind paying high fees.